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A FORMER Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) militant was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Thangmeiband Watham Leikai in Imphal West district in India's Manipur state on 8 December, The Shillong Times reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

TWO military commanders and an unspecified number of other soldiers were killed when at least one improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced by Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militants, detonated targeting a military convoy in the village of Dhanaane near the city of Marka in Somalia's

AT A COURT in the United States' capital Washington D.C. on 6 December, 63-year-old Lebanese national Kassim Tajideen, who had been named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in May 2009 by the US Treasury Department for his financial support of Hizbullah, pleaded guilty to charges concerning the

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In the first week of December, several media outlets reported an alleged “massacre” in La Saline neighbourhood of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince.
The killings reportedly took place between 1 and 13 November, when 64 people were killed and 439 houses ransacked in gang

AT LEAST three people - including two police officers - were killed and 48 others were wounded when a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) was detonated near the police headquarters in the city of Chabahar in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province on 6 December, Reuters

In Hipura Batagund, Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, security forces killed four unidentified militants in an exchange of gunfire. Reports added that the clashes broke out during a cordon and search operation.

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On 3 December, at least 24 workers employed by state-owned construction firm Istaka Karya were killed near their temporary accommodation in Yigi district, Papua. Local reports suggest ethnic-Papuans were offended by the workers photographing a private independence ceremony.
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THREE people were wounded when unidentified militants conducted a grenade attack targeting the residence of former MP Mohamedkheyr Hajji Mohamed Ibrahim Hirley in the Wadajir neighbourhood in the city of Baidoa in Somalia's Baay region on 3 December, Radio Dalsan reported. Reports did not state

ONE person was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED), attached to vehicle by unidentified militants, detonated close to Daydika Junction near the Ministry of Internal Security in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on 2 December, Radio Simba reported. The person killed was the driver of the

A LOCAL Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander - identified as Hakim Khan - was killed by security forces during a counter-terrorism raid on a residence in the Daraban area of Dera Ismail Khan district in Pakistan's Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province between 30 November and 1 December, ARY News and the

A SENIOR Hashd al-Shaabi commander was killed and four other militiamen were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced by unidentified militants, detonated targeting an armoured vehicle 80km northeast of Baqubah in Iraq's Diyala province on 29 November, Iraqi News reported. No

THREE United States soldiers were killed and two soldiers and a US civilian contractor were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced on a roadside by Taliban militants, detonated targeting an armoured vehicle in the Shahbaz area in the city of Ghazni in Afghanistan's Ghazni

MEDIA reports on 27 November, citing a military source, stated that unidentified assailants had opened fire targeting the convoy of military prosecutor-general, Abdullah al-Hadhiri, in the city of Taiz in Yemen's Taiz governorate on an earlier unspecified date, Al-Yawm reported. Reports did not

THREE Israeli soldiers were wounded in a vehicle-impact attack by a Palestinian assailant on a road near the city of Hebron in the West Bank on 26 November, Reuters reported. Reports added that the assailant was shot dead by a soldier following the attack. No group immediately claimed responsibility

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Seven local employees of French mineral and water drilling firm Foraco and an official from Niger’s hydraulics and sanitation ministry were shot dead on 22 November when unidentified attackers opened fire on their compound at Toumour, in Niger’s southeastern region of Diffa.

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The Islamic State was forced to withdraw from the Tuloul al-Safa area on 17 November, in response to an ongoing operation by the Syrian army to secure the desert between Damascus and Suwayda provinces in southern Syria.
Islamic State units based in these areas were responsible for the

AT LEAST seven people, including a mosque's prayer leader were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced by unidentified militants, detonated at a mosque on Taj Road in Chaman in Qilla Abdullah district in Pakistan's Balochistan province on 21 November, Dawn reported. No group

At least 50 people were killed and over 60 others injured as a result of what appears to have been a suicide bombing inside a wedding hall in the Afghan capital of Kabul on 20 November.
The attack, condemned by several countries and the United Nations, was reported by local media citing Afghan